1 Response to “The myth of the astute voter”

In a country like India, majority of political campaigning and voters decisions are based on coarse grained macro parameters. Most of political parties launch their electoral campaign to create and ride a wave. Majority of voters cast their vote based on ‘I am tired of current regime’ or things such as ‘onion price’ than any specific visibility into performance (and/or promise) data points of electoral candidate.

Maybe there is time and opportunity to build and political and electoral platform (technology platform) in India, which facilitates a lot more granular and focused decision making ability to Indian voters. Such a platform can also offer a framework to electoral candidates for clearer/focused and data/plan driven campaign.

Congrats to Arvind and his team. This does instill confidence in the electorate and common man. The road ahead is arduous, but the answer is Arvind's style: keeping it simple, being fearless, involving a large set of people in decision making. As AAP and like minded parties grow, there would be unintentional mistakes, maybe even […]

Arvind's accomplishment, given the situation in the country and its politics is of scale which can not be measured easily. What 'AAP' has done in one year should be role model for every leadership course worth its dime. It is an exemplary display of resolve, perseverance, planning, keeping-head-grounded and most of all flawless execution. The […]

Hi Alok, Iv known you as a professional for about 2 years. This is my first ever comment on any of your blogs and it comes straight from the heart. Every word of it I relate with. When I started supporting AAP, I got questioned left, right and center. Iv never met Arvind, but a […]